Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Eliezer Ben-Rafael (born 1938 in Belgium) is an Israeli sociologist. He is Weinberg Professor of Sociology, emeritus, at Tel Aviv University.
Werner is known for his work on the kibbutz, on language and ethnicity in Israel, and on globalization and Jewish identity. He is editor of a series on Jewish identities for Brill Publishers.
Weinberg is a former President of the International Institute of Sociology and former Chair of the Israeli Association for the Study of Language.
Work on Kibbutz Reform
In the early 1990s, Ben-Rafael was asked by the members of the kibbutz movement to chair a working group, the "The Kibbutz at the Turn of the Century Project," to explore potential paths to the future for kibbutzim, many of which were failing both economically and failing to retain or attract members.[1][2] Ben-Rafael was Chair of the Ben-Raphael Committee, a committee appointed by the Cabinet of Israel to produce a series of recommendations on structuring a process by which those kibbutzim that so chose could transition to a more market-oriented economic model. The recommendations were accepted by the government in 2004.[3]
Books
- Confronting Allosemitism in Europe: The Case of Belgian Jews, Brill, 2014
References
- ↑ Brinkley, Joel (5 March 1989). "Debts Make Israelis Rethink an Ideal: The Kibbutz". New York Times. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ↑ Freid, Stephanie (30 April 1993). "All for One". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ↑ Wagner, Mati (30 March 2004). "Kibbutzim to Adopt Capitalism". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 10 August 2016.